More than 2,000 register to observe national exam
More than 2,000 volunteers will be deployed to observe students taking the national exam in August, the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) said Monday, with the deadline for registration expiring Tuesday. More than 93,000 students are registered to sit the August 4 to 5 exam at 154 exam ...
Kuch Naren and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-2000-register-to-observe-national-exam-64052/
China donates 600 sets of radio transmitters to Cambodian Army
The Chinese government on Wednesday donated 600 sets of radio transmitters to the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) in order to increase the capacity and efficiency in information communication among armed forces. Speaking during a handover ceremony at the Headquarters of the Infantry on the outskirts ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-01/22/c_133066316.htm
Operation ‘urgent’ for strike detainee
Representatives for a detainee held since his arrest at a strike in early January say the window to operate on his broken hand is closing. Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday will hear a special temporary bail request for Sokun Sombath Piseth, 31, one of 21 ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/operation-%E2%80%98urgent%E2%80%99-strike-detainee
Court officers shifted en masse by ministry
Nearly 80 judges and prosecutors will be transferred to new jurisdictions today in a move that the Justice Ministry maintained would curb corruption, despite more sceptical assessments yesterday from legal observers and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party. According to Sam Prachea Manith, chief of cabinet ...
Meas Sokchea and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/court-officers-shifted-en-masse-ministry
Capital to host tourism fair
For the first time in the event’s 37-year history, Cambodia is to host the annual Pacific Asian Tourism Association Travel Mart (PTM), an annual tourism trade fair organised by the multinational tourism body. So Visothy, director of marketing and information at the Ministry of Tourism, said ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/capital-host-tourism-fair
Electricity provider to offer Wing payments
Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) on Monday announced it will offer customers in Sihanoukville, Battambang and Siem Reap the option to pay their bills via mobile payment provider Wing. EdC and Wing officials signed an agreement on July 1 at the Cambodiana Hotel in Phnom Penh authorising ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/electricity-provider-offer-wing-payments
Hun Sen demands bus lines
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday used the inauguration of the Stung Meanchey overpass to call for the speedy formation of a government bus authority, as the capital eyes two new planned routes and 18 by 2020. During his speech at the site of the approximately $19 ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-sen-demands-bus-lines
Almost half of Cambodian households have access to electricity
Cambodia’s electricity sector made notable progress in 2013 in terms of its sources, connection lines, and supplies, according to the Cambodian Electricity Authority. There was an increasing usage of 4297 million Kwh or 22 per cent in 2013 from 3527 million Kwh in 2012, according to ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MjEyYWY2MjNjODY
Tough talk on ELCs
Economic land concessionaires not abiding by their contracts could have their licences revoked if they have seriously breached the terms, Prime Minister Hun Sen has said. Illegally seizing forest land would be punished under the Law on Forestry, he said on Friday, speaking at an annual ...
May Titthara and Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tough-talk-elcs
Talks over political dispute still underway secretly: Cambodian PM
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that negotiations between his ruling party and the opposition party over political dispute have been conducted secretly. “The opposition has announced to suspend talks with the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), but in fact, the talks are still underway secretly,” ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-04/07/c_133243802.htm
Employees of Wing Star strike again
Thousands of striking factory workers in Kampong Speu province blocked National Road 3 yesterday, an action they say is in response to managers not living up to their end of a deal struck in March. Workers at the Wing Star Shoe factory – which employs about ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/employees-wing-star-strike-again
Foreign policy challenged by regional conflicts, expert says
ambodian leaders are facing a very uncertain Asean in recent weeks, with anti-Chinese protests in Vietnam pitting two of the country’s standards allies against each other and a Thai coup sealing the western borders and leaving a neighbor in the hands of military control. Both issues ...
Sok Khemara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/foreign-policy-challenged-by-regional-conflicts-expert-says/1921175.html
Out of jail, garment worker sees uncertain future
When Pang Vunny walks around his rented room just off of Veng Sreng Boulevard, he waves his hand from side to side in front of him, like a man feeling his way in the dark. Ever since he was arrested and badly beaten on January 2 ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/out-jail-garment-worker-sees-uncertain-future
Kompong Thom police arrest 7 in illegal checkpoint racket
Police in Kompong Thom province Wednesday arrested seven people allegedly involved in an illegal checkpoint racket, while an eighth escaped with handcuffs on and is at large. Shortly before 7 a.m., a joint task force of police and military police descended on an illegal checkpoint staffed ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kompong-thom-police-arrest-7-in-illegal-checkpoint-racket-60508/
Bunong vow to act against Mondolkiri loggers
Ethnic Bunong in Mondolkiri province’s Sen Monorom City said Tuesday that they would no longer cooperate with local officials in fighting illegal logging and that they would begin to confiscate loggers’ equipment and burn illicit timber themselves. at a press conference in Phnom Penh, representatives of ...
Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bunong-vow-to-act-against-mondolkiri-loggers-62960/
Hun Sen’s cabinet accepts petition of villagers
The cabinet of Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday accepted a petition from villagers from Kratie province’s Snuol district who are requesting intervention in a land dispute with a plantation owner. Kong Chamroeun, a secretary in the prime minister’s cabinet, met about 100 villagers at Phnom ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sens-cabinet-accepts-petition-of-villagers-64812/
Cults Ministry seizes discs from self-proclaimed ‘god’
Staff from the Ministry of Cults and Religion seized promotional material from a man claiming to be a Buddhist “god” on Sunday in Kandal province, officials said yesterday. The operation was conducted at Reachea pagoda, where Thean Vuthy had been promoting himself as the fifth and ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cults-ministry-seizes-discs-self-proclaimed-%E2%80%98god%E2%80%99
Cambodia garment sector small fry for suppliers
In Cambodia, where the garment sector accounts for 80 percent of exports, hundreds of thousands of people depend on their slice of the $5 billion industry to survive. But for suppliers currently exhibiting their wares at a trade show this weekend on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich ...
Holly Robertson and Kang Sothear
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-garment-sector-small-fry-for-suppliers-66677/
Push to transform bright female students into future gov’t leaders
As a child growing up in a poor family in Banteay Meanchey, Yang Leaphea struggled to imagine a world outside her province. She turned to her desperately under-resourced local library, but found few books there to expand her horizons. All that changed when the intelligent daughter ...
Holly Robertson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/push-to-transform bright-female-students-into-future-govt-leaders-66806/
Still no water flowing into Prey Sar prison
Prey Sar prison officials are carting thousands of liters of water to the prison each day because a construction company smashed a water main and has yet to fix it. According to prison officials, inmates are rationed 3 liters of clean water each day, which is ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/still-no-water-flowing-into-prey-sar-prison-66968/